Sep
21
7:00 PM
A Grand Bohemian Celebration
Music of the Cosmos
Conducted by: Sergey Bogza | Saturday, April 12, 7:00pm
The Panama City Symphony takes off on a celestial adventure, featuring mesmerizing projections and our Emerging Artists Competition Grand Prize Winner (High School Division) Didi Stone! Start out at Lightspeed, then soar with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Continue your journey, being propelled through space with Gustav Holst’s, The Planets. The stage is set for an unforgettable stellar evening among the galaxies, stars, nebulas, and planets.
PROGRAM
Day: Lightspeed
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, 1st Movement
Didi Stone, violin
Grand Prize Winner, 2024 Emerging Artists Competition (High School Division)
Daugherty: Red Cape Tango
Holst: The Planets
Soloist, Didi Stone
Croft (Didi) Stone, is a freshman at the Schwob School of Music. His passion for orchestra led him to the GMEA All-State orchestra, Emory Junior Chamber Orchestra, Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Didi was one of ten violinists selected for the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program in 2022.
In addition to serving as the concertmaster of the Alpharetta High School Symphony Orchestra, during the 2023-24 school year, he held the same position for the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. In 2024, in addition to winning the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Didi was selected as a member of the prestigious National Youth Orchestra (NYO-USA) and toured with the orchestra in South America under conductor Marin Alsop.
Didi is an avid chamber musician and accomplished singer, winning competitions in Georgia, and China. In the summer of 2023, Didi had the opportunity to record solo songs for a local composer in Xiamen, China.
